Fall in reported malicious attacks sees data breach notifications drop
Australia has seen a marginal fall in the number of reported data breaches for the last six months, clocking in at 518.
Australia has seen a marginal fall in the number of reported data breaches for the last six months, clocking in at 518.
More than 500 data breaches in Australia were reported under the government's breach notification laws in the six months ending 2019, a 19 per cent increase over the prior six-month period.
Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, five people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday the personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of about 100 million individuals in the United States were obtained by a hacker who has now been arrested.
Data from a student management system was exposed by an open S3 bucket, an Australian training company has confirmed.
An open Amazon Web Services S3 bucket exposed sensitive data about international students, including passport scans, visa details, and education agreements.
Some Australian companies have failed to notify affected individuals of data breaches according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
The number of data breaches reported to the OAIC has dropped to 215 making the January to March 2019 quarter the lowest in the number of data breaches reported in a full quarter so far.
Toyota Australia says it has “been the victim of an attempted cyber attack.”
The Department of Defence says that so far investigations into a cyber security breach at shipbuilder Austal have not identified any compromise of classified or sensitive information or technology.
More than half of Australian businesses may have experienced breaches in the past year, but how is the data getting out?
A massive breach at Yahoo stole account details from at least 500 million users and is being blamed on state-sponsored hackers.
Target hired Verizon to figure out what was behind its 2013 data breach and Verizon found that the company’s security problems can be summed up as failure to do the basics.
The first thing an IT security executive should do after the corporate network has been breached is fall back on the incident response plan that was put in place well before attackers got through the carefully constructed defenses.
We used 1 million records exposed as our floor in creating this list. Starting with a number that big says a lot about the state of data security.